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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap
    sub title: Theory and Empirical Evidence
  name:
    name part: Hirsch, Boris.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 280 p. 37 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book investigates models of spatial and dynamic monopsony and their application to the persistent empirical regularity of the gender pay gap. Theoretically, the main conclusion is that employers possess more monopsony power over their female employees if women are less driven by pecuniary considerations in their choice of employers than men. Employers may exploit this to increase their profits at the detriment of women’s wages. Empirically, it is indeed found that women’s labour supply to the firm is less wage-elastic than men’s and that at least a third of the gender pay gap in the data investigated may result from employers engaging in monopsonistic discrimination. Therefore, a monopsonistic approach to gender discrimination in the labour market clearly contributes to the economic understanding of the gender pay gap. It not only provides an intuitively appealing explanation of the gap from standard economic reasoning, but it is also corroborated by empirical observation.
  table of contents: Spatial Monopsony -- Simple Static Monopsony -- Short-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Long-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Spatial Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Spatial Monopsony and Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap -- Dynamic Monopsony -- Simple Dynamic Monopsony -- A General Equilibrium Model of Dynamic Monopsony -- Dynamic Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Concluding Remarks.
  note: by Boris Hirsch.
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor Economics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Policy
  classification: HD4801-8943
  classification: 331
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 639
  identifier: 9783642104091
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10409-1
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    record creation date: 110414
    record change date: 20151204190745.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-10409-1